ISO/IEC 8859-3

ISO/IEC 8859-3:1999, Information technowogy — 8-bit singwe-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 3: Latin awphabet No. 3, is part of de ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition pubwished in 1988. It is informawwy referred to as Latin-3 or Souf European. It was designed to cover Turkish, Mawtese and Esperanto, dough de introduction of ISO/IEC 8859-9 superseded it for Turkish. The encoding remains popuwar wif users of Esperanto, dough use is waning as appwication support for Unicode becomes more common, uh-hah-hah-hah.

ISO-8859-3 is de IANA preferred charset name for dis standard when suppwemented wif de C0 and C1 controw codes from ISO/IEC 6429. Microsoft has assigned code page 28593 a.k.a. Windows-28593 to ISO-8859-3 in Windows. IBM has assigned code page 913 to ISO 8859-3.